Conington nr. St. Ives / Contone / Cunitone

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2013 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3794485] [accessed 30 June 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10949CON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 6 School Lane, Conington, Cambridgeshire CB3 8LP

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A14, near St Ives [NB: not to be confused with another Conington located S of Peterborough]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Papworth

Font Location in Church: Located now in the tower gallery since 1870 [earlier in the N side of the nave]

Century and Period: 14th century?, Decorated

Font Notes: Click to view

There are five entries for this Conington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3266/conington/] [accessed 30 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968) does not mention a font in this church. The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "The advowson of Conington church, recorded by 1217, (fn. 14) presumably belonged originally to the Picot fee. […] Carved fragments including the top of a piscina survive from a 12th-century building. […] The medieval chancel survived until 1870 […]; a new font was given". The Parish of St Mary's web site [www.henyhill.org/cthi.html] informs: "The font, at the east end of the nave, replaced a far older font, now in the tower gallery, which had projected from the wall on the north side, also in 1870."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.276661, -0.066215

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 16′ 35.98″ N, 0° 3′ 58.37″ W

UTM: 30U 700140 5795864

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone